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Newspaper Page TextWARMER CITtf EDflfON (Weather Report, Page 1-B) 8th Year, Np.193 FOlft StCTIOS- PAGES Eflgene Oregftn, Wednesday, July 13, 1955 PHONE 5-1551 Price, 5 Cents I Broken Bodies 0f-7 Youths' iTaken Down Mrs. Hobby Quits Post ! ill ( uw ill ii mum w 7 in m w-caaa ill in in tANE COUNTY'S HOME ftEWSAPEO ' ' u .ran TEN AIRMEN KILLED Firemen battle flames from scattered wreckage of KC97, refueling tanker, which caught ,fire shortly after take Ten Killed In California Air Crash MERCED, Calif. WV Ten men died Wednesday as a four engine "tanker" plane crashed after leav ing Castle Air Force Base near here. There were no survivors. Fire broke out on the plane as it reached an altitude of about 11,500 feet. It crashed within a moment or two, exploded as it hit the ground, and was demolished The flames fired the grain field into which the plane fell The tanker, a military version of the Boeing Stratocruiser, was on a routine refueling mission from Castle AFB near Merced The crash occurred about 15 miles northwest of Merced, near the community of Cresscy. REFUELING TEST The rcfuelcr was to have inter cepted a flight of bombers on a fweling test, The first report on the crash was a telephone call to the sheriff's office from the rancher on whose property the plane fell. "Bodies were strewn all over the field," he said. The tankers were used to refuel jet bpmbcrs and interceptors, i.-d can carry more than 6,000 gallons of jet fuel. One of the four engines fell in a field about a mile from the plane wreckage. As the big ship exploded, de bris was scattered oyer more than an acre of ground. It fired a barley field, burning five or six acres. FELT' LIKE EARTHQUAKE The explosion jarred houses in Modesto, 28 miles away, and the jolt felt like an earthquake to residents of El Capitan and Cres scy, about five miles from the crash. A rancher said he saw the en- iine fall from the plane. Then the wing on that side rose sharp- !v, and the rancher could see flames streaking alongside the " SL,dH "'"- "'Kinf control and crashed while he piane jurcnuu iu uie cdim. Adventists Convene OREGON CITY 11 Some 650 delegates, from 107 churches throughout the state, were ex pected Wednesday for the open ing session of the Oregon Con ference of Seventh-Day Adven tists. The conference is being held at the Gladstone Park camp grounds. Never Too Old to Sing Lane County's venerable entertainers, the Octogenarian Quartet, have a problem. One of the members will be 90 Aug. 22." He'll be a non agenarian. , But Rev. Frank Cook, the man wilh the impending ' birthday, isn't worried. The quartet has had to pad out lis ranks with juniors young sters a mere 79 years old without so much as changihg its name. The Rev. Cook is pastor of the McKenzie Bridge Chris- . " tian Church, Besides heing known for his s'ingiri, he's rsme'mbered'as'the man. who has 'sparked construction Of more thaj" IJO'churthc in the western states. His latest rildin project was construc tion1 oj a n,w chapel iH anc ' turf at flcKenzjf Brle. He wilMe honored Sunday j by the o'er members ofihe quartet Fmk Terpin, John 3 St?r and Geoyre McLean who will rfleiT a concert of sacr. andjeculffr numbers fltl regular 11 a.m. devo- tiflf service at icKenzir Bridge. if.. :i - off and crashed and ex- Treatment of Animals Brings Censure to 2 Lane County Humane Society I Mrs. Frank W. McCulloeh of Rt. officials censured two former employes Tuesday for permitting what the society's president. Dr. W. M. Swangard, termed a hor rible and shocking" method of disposing of small animals. The men blamed by society ol- ficials for conditions at the ken nels on Traxler Rd. are George Cranford, former caretaker; and Bud Farmer, an assistant. Society members said Tuesday that both men have disclaimed knowledge that the conditions existed. Practices of treating animals at society kennels on Traxler Rd were exposed last week . when ICC Provides Boxcar Help SALEM (Pi Two orders have been issued by the Interstate Commerce Commission which will help ease the boxcar shortage in Oregon, Public Utilities Com missioner Charles Hcltzcl has announced. The nation's railroads can no longer delay cars at points where there are competing railroads. in the hope of getting additional business, the ICC ruled. The cars must now be moved quickly to the points they are needed. The other nationwide order is sued by the ICC reduces from eight to four the number of rail roads which can hold cars at their destination waiting for a backhaul load. All other railroads must send the empties back as soon as possible. Although the threat of a boxcar shortage still hangs over the slate, orders for cars are being filled this week. Logger Killed A long-Bell Lumber Co. em ploye was killed Wednesday mnrnintr ahnn hie intntr u-nnl fint was working at a logging opera tion at Austa, 40 miles west of Eugene. The dead man was identified as Bert Duke of Vcncta. State po lice and coroner s deputies were sent to the scene to conduct an investigation of the accident. AYOXE FOR SAI.W)?- Us twofeet across. 4ft s. pern quite frtLerog n, but , .J , Z' 'J The lot. . Z - "f'Slxr A aboul-350 roucnt tne union .rior ie oi ine largest icaus oi iei- i t-e eve? gfown in tl EmcraftoCTipire. Mrs.QBarton said j Chit, head was grown from on of iicr seedlings by a nr-ifihborHarry Taylor. Fox Hollo' load, ffce head j ot good'soxit wouldn't to scJ?' - W L . . " if I I J 4I ploded two miles north of Castle Air Force Base, Calif., Ten bodies were taken from the wreckage. ' (AP Wlrpphnlo) 3, Eugene, complained that dogs and cats were being put together in a gas chamber prior to their killing. She said also that animal re mains near the incinerator were unsightly and obnoxious; and she complained about the long time animals were kept In the cham ber before being gassed. The society Tuesday morning held a regular meeting for mem bers and other interested per sons in the Lane County Court house. Dr. Swangard presided. He was recently elected presi dent of the organization. Other action taken by the so ciety on Tuesday ' included: Election of Mrs. McCulloeh to the board of directors, after admitting her into membership I in the society. Agreement to pay transit ex penses of a prospective new man ager for the kennels who is now in Nebraska. A change in the groups meeting date. From now on. the society will meet the first Thurs day -of the month at 7:30 p.m. in TREATMENT f Continued on Page 4 A) Solons Clear Projects Bill WASHINGTON Mv-A bill ap propriating nearly 554 million dol lars to be used by Army Engi- ncers in the next 2 months to;Dullcs aiso sajd there is cvery plan ann duiiq uuuu i-uniim auu navigation projects cleared Con gress Wednesday and was sent to the White House. Congressional action was com pleted when the House and Sen ate agreed to compromise. Previ ously, the House had voted 520 million dollars and the Senate 565 million. President Eisenhow er had budgeted 518 million. (Funds included in this appro priation will provide either plan ning or partial construction of the following Emerald Empire projects: Cougar Dam, Hills Creek Dam, Green I'ctcr Dam and the Amazon Creek channel work.) Sirs. Harold Baflon Tuesday Barton raorted: ' It doesn t wft cut ajj wri !T,e woa-.f Vifv &t Water Skier Hit by Boat, Hurt Seriously A 13-year-old Eugene girl was seriously injured Monday when she was struck by the propellor of a motorboat while water-ski ing at Fern Ridge Lake. The victim was Mariane Thom as, who lives with her grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis A. Thomas, at 2180 Roosevelt Blvd. She suffered deep cuts of the right arm and leg in the accident. The mishap occurred about 6 p.m. while Mariane was water- skiing behind a boat operated by her grandfather. Witnesses said the girl fell from her water-skis into the path of a second motor- boat, operated by Jerry Wroe, 1310 W. 13th Ave. Robert Lee Bomark, 1294 Polk St., who was water-skiing behind Wroe's boat, said Mariane appar ently swerved In front of the boat and then lost her balance. She was taken by Eugene Am bulance to Sacred Heart Hospital, where she underwent a 4-hour operation Tuesday night to repair the injuries to her leg and arm. Her condition remained serious Wednesday morning. Dulles Heads For Europe WASHINGTON W Secretary of Slate John Foster Dulles ex pressed hope on his departure for Europe Wednesday that next week's Big Four Geneva confer ence will carry forward "our unceasing quest for a secure and just peace." . Just before flying to Europe reason to believe that the United States, Britain and France ' see eye to eye" in major problems likely to come up at the meeting with the Soviet Union. This inilial allied unity, Dulles sMd, is a "good beginning of on efforts to reach agreement wl'h I the Soviet Union cn the pur poses of the Geneva conference. Ike Approves Defense Bill WASHINGTON ( President Eisenhower Wednesday approved the $31,882,815,726 defense appro priation bill but served notice he! will regard one provision as in valid "unless otherwise determ ined by a court of competent lurisdiction." In an unusual special message to Congress, the President said ihc was referring to a provision dealing wilh Defense Department i authority "to rid itself of. many of the manifold activities that it was performing with its civil ian personnel, and that can be adequately and economically per formed by private industry with out danger to the national 'se curity. Eisenhower said jn his message that hi" had been advised by Atty. Gen. Browne)! that this provision "cndstitiKes an uncon- slitutional inasion of the pto the executive" 1 .money in the bill Is million dollars belw President's buogel requests 3'i billion dollars defense mncy bill of ,:;insidetQday: tt VKay inmi s new ater r3our poll? by Aug. 1. FV- . .VToinft'i News i-TAo Editorials ... 8A cal News ....... Sports ..O Theatres ORadio. TV .gl-3C 2o ft 2-7D Snow Slide Kills : Novice .Climbers ' BANFF," Alta. The broken bodies of seven American teen-age boys who died in an avalance high iu the Canadian Rockies were brought to this resort town lucsday night. Two other boys in the ll mem ber group of novice mountain climbers were injured seriously Monday when tons of snow thundered down 11,636-foot Mt. Temple, 30 miles northwest of Banff. The other two escaped .with bruises. WORST TRAGEDY It was the worst climbing trag edy in the History rit the Cana dian Rockies. Climbing without a guide and equipped with only an inch-thick mamla rope and ice axes, the youths were within 2,000 feet of the peak when the snow slide swept them 1,000 feet down the mountain. One was killed instantly. The others died of -injuries and ex posure in the hail and freezing rain that lashed the mountain before rescue parties reached them the next day. The boys were members of a group of 30 who came to Banff National Park on an expedition organized by the Wilderness Club of Philadelphia. The boys wore only ordinary boots or spiked baseball or track shoes. Police said an inquest is being called by the Alberta provincial coroner. No date has been set. Eugene Man Recalls Climb The mountain -climbing acci dent that killed seven youths Monday afternoon in Canada-was the type of mishap that could happen to even the most exper ienced mountaineers, according to a Eugene mountain-climber who scaled the same Canadian peak nearly 20 years ago. Art Steele, 1320 River Rd., a member of Obsidians, said the avalanche that resulted in the death of the youths was "an un lucky break that could happen to anybody." Steele climbed the 11,636-foot Mt. Tcrtlplc, .where the accident occurred, in August, 1936. He and a companion used a guide book borrowed from the Eugene City Library while making the climb. "An avalanche is one thing you can't duck," Steele said. He added that many mountaineers prefer to do their climbing during early- morning hours before the sun has softened 'the snow. The youths who were killed in the avalanche Monday had climb ed only one other mountain be fore beginning the climb up Ml. Temple. Matusow Indicted NEW YORK Wi A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted turnabout witness Harvey Matu sow on six counts of perjury. The charges grew out of Matu sow's accusation that Roy M. Cohn, former assistant U. S. at torney here, had induced Malu snw to give false testimony at the 1952 conspiracy trial of 13 second-string Communist leaders. t ' " Re(litrr.Gir4 I It "ii'lJ t ' " m Ji ) - r H)OR CATCH fry Stabc Florence manager f Co lumtei RiveiPt!'ks Assn., lffts a sftiall silver salrrn which renrented a filth $ Only three smaU silvers and i to the Dlajjt. She 'olant is witarea 7iicriciff The a livery te (AP Wlrephoto) PRESIDENT, MRS. HOBBY CONFER President Eisen hower and Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby sit side by side in the President's conference room in Washington, D. C. Wednesday at a special news conference to announce Mrs. Hobby's resignation as secretary of welfare. Marion B. Folsom will succeed Mrs. Hobby on Aug. 1. Police Find Of Child's By THOMAS or The United Prcii SIOUX CITY, Iowa an Several good" fingerprints of the rape- slayor of 2-year-old Donna Sue Davis have been found in the bedroom from which she was ab ducted, police said Wednesday. Optimistic police officials said the prints, found on a cedar chest, Donna's crib and the frame window through which the killer escaped, provide the first "big break in the case. POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION They said the prints probably will give positive identification of the murderer. Meanwhilo, the FBI issued a nationwide arre3t order for the sex degenerate' who snatched Donna from her crib while her Sun, Warmth On Forecast It's vacation weather for Ore gon, shirtsleeve, water-lhc-Iawn, picnic, lel's-go-swimming weather from coast to mountains and be yond. Press reports predict noth ing but a little early morning cloudiness to mar the skies over the beaches and the northern part of the state Thursday. Day time temperatures arc expected to be above 80 degrees. If the forecasts are borne out it will be the third day of real summer weather for Oregon. In creasing fire danger because of warm, sunny days is predicted through Thursday. Humidity Is expected to go no lower than 30 per cent, however, in the northwestern valleys and the coast range, although it may go below that figure in the central and southern interior. Oregon's good fortune is shared by most sections of the nation wilh thunderstorms diminishing in the southeastern states. 212 on Plane FORT WORTH, Tex. Wi The Air Force claimed a new passenger-carrying record Wednesday for land-based planes. The XC99 transport landed at Convair's plant here Tuesday wilh 212 per sons on a flight from San An tnnio. P . -wfJ "'1ft .' J '' "A ' , Wm I'"" Cross, wis reported i laT' -"'"'fT t'iesn' Gallons iolo y HttiluM Wlluhlre engraving). rl thceplant's take Tuesday. two Chinook were dclivenfll involved in a prixtuxJlispute cgmmerejj flctt has not made pla?lt for twovvcks Prints Slayer McNALLY parents watched television Sun day night and left her ravaged body at the edge of a muddy cornfield near South Sioux City, Neb., where it was found late Monday. The blonde, curly-haired child was laid to rest Wednesday by four child pallbearers. The pallbearers, all boys, were from the classroom of Donna's sister, Mary, 11, at St. Boniface Roman Catholic School, where funeral services were held at 9 a.m. CDT. A large crowd at tended. , CASKET CLOSED Donna was burled in a white lambskin casket lined with ivory crepe. A red bathrobe, bonnet and white gloves covered the ab rasions on her tiny body. The casket was closed at the request ot mo cniia s parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Davis. No mass was said for Donna, because she wasn't confirmed Burial was held at Calvary Ceme tery. Four Shot For Giggling In Tavern FLINT, Mich, (if) A 30-year-old truck driver wound up a tour of bars by shooting and killing two women and a man Tuesday night in irritation over their "laughing aim giggling. Police said the truck driver, "out for a good time" after a de livery trip, deliberately emptied a pistol into a tavern booth oc cupied by two couples. the tavern proprietress said the couples were only enjoying themselves and had not been of fensive. AM, STRANGERS ine victims included a man and his wife and a second wom an. The second man was badly wounded but was expected to re cover. All four, strangers to their assailant, were shot in the head. Kenneth Kuzner, 30, of Detroit was seized in his truck a short time later near Pontine, 25 miles from the scene. Police said he readily admitted the shootings and could give no explanation except the irritation other pat rons caused him. They said he had been drinking but was not drunk. "I was just out for a good time, police quoted him saying. Kuzner told officers the four victims were "total strangers." They were sitting together in a booth at Edna's Bar and Res taurant at suburban' Grand Blanc when Kuzner walked in. State police said Kuzner sat : stoirly at the bar drinking a beer. nn.vi iii.,.R When he finished, they aaid, he wciit to a rest room, came out and strode up 'to the two couples' bnothi spoke not a word and be gan firing point blilnk wltlt a .38 '.f'alibor automatic. sajd liirah, 26 or Flint, and his. wife Jcanninc died minutes MtCr. Urs. Warcaret S. Cross. 37. a liWecc, dijd ttv tmgr later, in a lint hospital I Jamr Dollars, 28, who was J"(I)ON ifi Plalininji hairc Hum bills was najigBi Yvcdnes - d;. morning at London's Hollo- wa Jail for killing her faithless lnvr auTsidc bar on Easter Sulay. AFI1AI I No gan,Oi scheduled. In Cabinet . president Lauds Welfare Secretary WASHINGTON W)' Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby resigned Wednesday as secretary of welfare effective Aug. 1. President Eisenhower picked Marion B. Folsom, now . undersecretary of the treasury, to succeed. her in the Cabinet post.- Tho President called a special news conference to make the an. nouncement, and, paid warm trib ute to Mrs. Hobby as she sat by his side in the conference room. VERV SAD DAY' On her part, the retiring Cab inet officer told Eisenhower that as he prepares to go to the Big Four conference at Geneva "everyone of us will be praying" the sessions will lead to a "truly universal peace." Mrs. Hobby's resignation had long been expected, and the Presi dent apparently took it for grant cd that everyone knew that was the purposo of the conference. Without ever formally announcing her resignation, 'Eisenhower turned to Mrs. Hobby and re marked solemnly: "Oveta, this is a very sad day.; The President said his mind at the moment went back to a day in 1942 when Mrs. Hobby arrived in London to take command o the Women's Army Corps. 'PERSONAL REASONS' Eisenhower, at that time, was preparing to lead the Allied forces against Hitler's armies. Mrs. Hobby led the WAC splend. Idly and it turned out to lie one of the finest organizaUons "tha Army ever had," Eisenhowef said, . . After the conference room ccre mony, the White House mada public an exchange of correspond ence between Eisenhower and Mrs. Hobby. Personal reasons of a high order compel me to (take leava of my post as secretary of health, education and welfare," Mrs, Hobby wrote. While she did not specify those reasons, friends said Mrs. Hobby is leaving because of the illness of her husband, former Gov. Wil liam P. Hobby of Texas. The "Houston Post announced that Mrs. Hobby will become president o the Post Publishing Co. NOT A SURPRISE Mrs. Hobby's husband, now president of the publishing com pany, will become chairman ol the board when Mrs. Hobby re turns to Houston. Folsom's selection as Mrs. Hob by's successor had been widely forecast. The shift was agreed on weeks ago, and the only real question was the timing. Folsom, 61, is a native of Me rino, Ga and came into the Eisenhower administration from the Eastman Kodak Co., where he was treasurer. He Is considered an expert in the field of social security, and . served on a presidential commis sion in 1933 which put together the original social security laws. VACCINE CONTROVERSY Reports that Mrs. Hobby wan preparing to step out of the Cab inet were current last spring. But when the Salk polio vac cine controversy broke about her it was understood she was re luctant to quit under fire. Mrs. Hobby, 50. took the oalh as the first secretary of health, education and welfare on April 11, 1953. She was the second wo man ever to hold a Cabinet post. She was one of the Texas Democrats who helped swing that state to Eisenhower in 1952. No Vaccine Yet for Lane Whon Lane County will get enough Salk anti-polio vaccine to complete the second shot in tho series of three was unknown Wednesday. Dr. Arthur P. Martini, presi dent of the Lane "County Medical Society, sid lie had received no word on whether the area will get any of the vaccine released I (h,, wcck Enough vaccine for nearly one million slt'ils wa approved for .liatrihiifinn This Is the fit sub stantial release since lale May when Lane County's first, shot was given? . inoi ihxn a small inrnhis has nccn U5(,a t0 Riv the socondhot t0 children in ilf adoien rural achools. i A(.cmlimli , the United Press, ,,, Ma.inn..i Cnimdailnn fnr tn. f;.lilc TJira'.ysis Wednesday Indi-l-al.l fiftt shipments probalfly Iu: he sfn to Texs. Oklahomao 0 West Virginia and ULssou& Classijcd ft to 5 o e A '- O ,